Horse-collar



(No Model.)

J. STRAUS. HORSE COLLAR.

No. 304,969. Patented Sept. 9,1884.

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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JACOB STRAITS, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

HORSE-COLLAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 304,969, datedSeptember 9, 1884.

Application filed March 20, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JACOB SrRAUs, of the city'of St. Louis, in the Stateof Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement inHorse-Collars, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, formingpart of this specification, and in which- Figure l is a view of thefront of my improved collar. Fig. 2 is an edge view, partly in section.Fig. 3 is a back view. Fig. 4. is a lower end view. Fig. 5 is a similarView, part removed. Fig. 6 is a section taken on line 6 6, Fig. 1. Fig.7 is a vertical section of the lower part of the collar taken on line 77, Fig. 4, on a larger scale. Fig. 8 is a vertical section taken on line8 8, Fig. l, on a larger scale.

My invention relates to certain improvements in those leatherhorse-collars whose shoulderpads do not extend beneath the throat of theanimal.

My improvement consists in features of novelty hereinafter described,and pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, A is the rim or fore-Wale; B, the pads, formed of frontpieces, B, rear piece, B, and filling B.

The broad rigid band or neck 0 is formed by the laps b b and a a of therim and padpieces, having within them a strengthening and stiffeningstrip, I, as shown and described in Letters Patent N 0. 255,206, grantedto me March 21, 1882. The rear pieces, B, and filling B do not extendbeneath the throat; but the front piece, B, extends beneath the throator neck of the animal, to provide a broad throat-piece or portion, I),and is re-enforced by one or more thicknesses of material, D, to giveadditional strength and thickness to this part of the collar.

D is a throat-piece connecting the rear pieces, B, and forming the lapI) (see Fig. 8) at that portion. These throat pieces are formed ofleather, and present a very rigid unstuffed throat portion, which isdesigned not to touch the animals throat or shoulder when the collar isin use, and it is therefore preferably curved outward, as shown in Fig.8, so that there will be no danger of it coming in contact with theanimals throat at any time.

A collar thus constructed has every advantage of a throatless collar, inthat it does not come in contact with the animals breast or throat, andat the same timeithas the strength or chafe the animal s neck on theapplication of the harness to the collar.

This collar takes less material and labor in its construction thanordinary collars.

The neck 0 at the bottom of the collar has strengthening and stiffeningstrips or pieces I, (see Figs. 2, 5, 7, and 8,) which may extend up thesides of the collar as far as desired, and one or more of them mayextend all the way around the collar, as in my patent above referred to.The stiff and rigid throat portion is formed with a slot or opening, J,to provide a loop to receive a breast or pole strap or martingale, whichis a great convenience and avoids the necessity of wrapping the straparound the collar where it is liable to come in contact with the animalsneck or throat. This opening cannot of course be formed in a collarhaving a stuffed throat.

Having thus described my invention, the following is what I claim as newtherein and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. In a horse-collar, the combination of rim A, front pad-pieces, B,having broad stiff throat portion D, rear pad-pieces, B, reenforcethroat-piece 1), connecting the rear padpieces. a rigid neck, 0, andstrengtheningstrip I, the throat-pieces forming a rigid unstuffed throatportion bet-ween the "pads, as shown and described.

2. A horse-collar having a rigid unstuffed throat portion provided witha slot or opening to form a loop, as set forth.

JACOB STRAITS.

In presence of Gno. H. KNIGHT, SAML. KNIGHT.

